The Great Compassion and Fraternity in Mahayana - Purdue e-Pubs
... The Great Compassion in Relation to the Buddha It is said that the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is different from Arahats, the perfect Noble Person who completely cut off re-birth. Along with Great Compassion and the three bases of mindfulness,8 were “the eighteen exclusive qualities” of the Bu ...
... The Great Compassion in Relation to the Buddha It is said that the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is different from Arahats, the perfect Noble Person who completely cut off re-birth. Along with Great Compassion and the three bases of mindfulness,8 were “the eighteen exclusive qualities” of the Bu ...
manual of zen buddhism
... nevertheless crept into its daily service is clue to the general characteristics of Chinese Buddhism of the Sung dynasty, when the Japanese Zen masters visited China and imported it as they found it then, together with the Shingon elements of Chinese Zen. In China the Shingon did not thrive very lon ...
... nevertheless crept into its daily service is clue to the general characteristics of Chinese Buddhism of the Sung dynasty, when the Japanese Zen masters visited China and imported it as they found it then, together with the Shingon elements of Chinese Zen. In China the Shingon did not thrive very lon ...
Mohenjo-daro
... Parinirvana = final nirvana; achieved at death of an enlightened figure Fig 53 Fig 27 – Bhaja chaitya hall Fig 54 – Death of Buddha ...
... Parinirvana = final nirvana; achieved at death of an enlightened figure Fig 53 Fig 27 – Bhaja chaitya hall Fig 54 – Death of Buddha ...
Shikantaza(Just Sitting) - sotozen-net
... (1) Emphasis on zazen and rejection of other practices (full devotion to zazen) (2) Rejection of zazen as a means to an end (oneness of practice and realization) As for the first aspect, Zen Master Nyojo rejected practices other than zazen, from incense-burning to reading sutras in the sayings quote ...
... (1) Emphasis on zazen and rejection of other practices (full devotion to zazen) (2) Rejection of zazen as a means to an end (oneness of practice and realization) As for the first aspect, Zen Master Nyojo rejected practices other than zazen, from incense-burning to reading sutras in the sayings quote ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or intercultural Chinese topoi. If this negligence of a sound philological and con ...
... about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or intercultural Chinese topoi. If this negligence of a sound philological and con ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred printed volumes in all. The texts selected are not necessarily limited to those originally written in India but also include works w ...
... After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred printed volumes in all. The texts selected are not necessarily limited to those originally written in India but also include works w ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... There are other claims of Buddha's birth in Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, India; or Kapileswara in Orissa, India.[8][9][10][12][28][13][14][15]and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilavastu.[29] According to the most traditional biography,[which?] the Buddha's father was King Śuddhodan ...
... There are other claims of Buddha's birth in Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, India; or Kapileswara in Orissa, India.[8][9][10][12][28][13][14][15]and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilavastu.[29] According to the most traditional biography,[which?] the Buddha's father was King Śuddhodan ...
Laymen saints - The Dharmafarers
... blame and fear in the otherworld. This too may refer to the rich field, especially those who at once awaken upon hearing the teaching. It is for the sake of the rich fields, for the love of the medium fields and not forgetting the poor fields that the Buddha resolves ―to set the wheel of truth in mo ...
... blame and fear in the otherworld. This too may refer to the rich field, especially those who at once awaken upon hearing the teaching. It is for the sake of the rich fields, for the love of the medium fields and not forgetting the poor fields that the Buddha resolves ―to set the wheel of truth in mo ...
The Tower of Power`s Finest Hour: Stupa Construction and
... Buddhist rulers such as Ashoka (304–232 B.C.E.) but became particularly prominent near the beginning of the Common Era, when a new religious movement, the Mahāyāna (“Great Vehicle”), began to appear, spreading northwest from India into Central Asia and eastward into China. From China, Mahāyāna B ...
... Buddhist rulers such as Ashoka (304–232 B.C.E.) but became particularly prominent near the beginning of the Common Era, when a new religious movement, the Mahāyāna (“Great Vehicle”), began to appear, spreading northwest from India into Central Asia and eastward into China. From China, Mahāyāna B ...
Dharma and Abhidharma
... and no trace of it is found in the comparison; it is clearly of secondary importance and may even be an addition. Apart from these in themselves not very decisive considerations, there is one argument which lends some plausibility to the view that the ‘observation of the positions of the body’ was n ...
... and no trace of it is found in the comparison; it is clearly of secondary importance and may even be an addition. Apart from these in themselves not very decisive considerations, there is one argument which lends some plausibility to the view that the ‘observation of the positions of the body’ was n ...
SD 9 - The Dharmafarers
... time, till it became the “great Sutta of the perfect Nirvāṇa” which we now have in our Pāli Canon. (Winternitz, History of Indian Literature 2, 1972:39; cf 41 f) In his article, “The Traditional Date of Kanishka,”5 J F Fleet tries to show that the sutta could not have been composed later than 375 BC ...
... time, till it became the “great Sutta of the perfect Nirvāṇa” which we now have in our Pāli Canon. (Winternitz, History of Indian Literature 2, 1972:39; cf 41 f) In his article, “The Traditional Date of Kanishka,”5 J F Fleet tries to show that the sutta could not have been composed later than 375 BC ...
Gautama Buddha was born in Helabima
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
Introduction
... through [the section on the contemplation of] the objects of [mistaken] views.9 Thus the Dharma-wheel ceased turning, and he did not expound on the latter sections.10 Yet in drawing water from a stream one seeks its source, and scenting a fragrance one traces its origin.11 The Ta chih tu lun says, ...
... through [the section on the contemplation of] the objects of [mistaken] views.9 Thus the Dharma-wheel ceased turning, and he did not expound on the latter sections.10 Yet in drawing water from a stream one seeks its source, and scenting a fragrance one traces its origin.11 The Ta chih tu lun says, ...
What the Buddha Taught - Career Account Web Pages
... is followed in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Chittagong in East Pakistan. Mahayana, which developed relatively later, is followed in other Buddhist countries like China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, etc. There are certain differences, mainly with regard to some beliefs, practices and obser ...
... is followed in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Chittagong in East Pakistan. Mahayana, which developed relatively later, is followed in other Buddhist countries like China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, etc. There are certain differences, mainly with regard to some beliefs, practices and obser ...
What the Buddha Taught
... is followed in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Chittagong in East Pakistan. Mahayana, which developed relatively later, is followed in other Buddhist countries like China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, etc. There are certain differences, mainly with regard to some beliefs, practices and obser ...
... is followed in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Chittagong in East Pakistan. Mahayana, which developed relatively later, is followed in other Buddhist countries like China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, etc. There are certain differences, mainly with regard to some beliefs, practices and obser ...
Ruppert , Brian - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... 一 a Buddha relic fashioned into a jewel~was enshrined there.1 In this paper, I will examine the relationship between the Japanese royal regalia一 the so-called mirror, sword, and jewel— and Buddhism by analyzing representations of the wish-fulfilling jewel in the medieval era. Through tracing the gen ...
... 一 a Buddha relic fashioned into a jewel~was enshrined there.1 In this paper, I will examine the relationship between the Japanese royal regalia一 the so-called mirror, sword, and jewel— and Buddhism by analyzing representations of the wish-fulfilling jewel in the medieval era. Through tracing the gen ...
Buddhism Reconsidered - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... Though this iliesis is a work of philosophical criticism, we ought not forget iliat ideas have consequences. Buddhism has not only changed, but shaped ilie lives of millions of diligent men and women, people who made ilieir choices based on its promises. Detail becomes all ilie more important in wei ...
... Though this iliesis is a work of philosophical criticism, we ought not forget iliat ideas have consequences. Buddhism has not only changed, but shaped ilie lives of millions of diligent men and women, people who made ilieir choices based on its promises. Detail becomes all ilie more important in wei ...
Zhuan Falun (Volume II)
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
Essentials of Buddhism
... that he began to meditate, his thoughts became concentrated until he forgot his surroundings. When the attendants came back to find him, they saw him seated cross14 ...
... that he began to meditate, his thoughts became concentrated until he forgot his surroundings. When the attendants came back to find him, they saw him seated cross14 ...
An Old Inscription from Amarāvatī and the Cult of the Local Monastic
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
By Ajahn Jayasaro - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
... interested in finding out more on particular points are referred to the list of resources found at the end of the book. Many forms of Buddhism have evolved over the past 2,600 years. This book deals only with the teachings of the Theravada tradition, and specifically the form of Theravada found in T ...
... interested in finding out more on particular points are referred to the list of resources found at the end of the book. Many forms of Buddhism have evolved over the past 2,600 years. This book deals only with the teachings of the Theravada tradition, and specifically the form of Theravada found in T ...
bussho notes
... a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “everything.” “One entirety of the entirety of being” (shitsuu no isshitsu 悉有の一悉): Presumably the point is that “living beings” represent but one type within the “entirety of being” — with, perhaps, ...
... a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “everything.” “One entirety of the entirety of being” (shitsuu no isshitsu 悉有の一悉): Presumably the point is that “living beings” represent but one type within the “entirety of being” — with, perhaps, ...
Theories on the Foundation of the Nuns` Order –
... foundation of the order of nuns, and therewith also the reference to the diminished duration of the true Dharma, indicating that it will last for only five-hundred years, instead of a thousand.9 Thus the Buddha's refusal to allow women to go forth and his prediction that the founding of an order of ...
... foundation of the order of nuns, and therewith also the reference to the diminished duration of the true Dharma, indicating that it will last for only five-hundred years, instead of a thousand.9 Thus the Buddha's refusal to allow women to go forth and his prediction that the founding of an order of ...
Re-Imagining the Buddha
... influenced his vision in this respect.10 Coleridge was concerned to understand the creative process, of which he had had such powerful experience, and to rescue it from the mechanistic and deterministic psychology then developing. Imagination, to him, could not be captured by such reductive theories ...
... influenced his vision in this respect.10 Coleridge was concerned to understand the creative process, of which he had had such powerful experience, and to rescue it from the mechanistic and deterministic psychology then developing. Imagination, to him, could not be captured by such reductive theories ...
this PDF file
... being led properly by me. And those who in the distant future will be arahants and fully enlightened ones, these Lords will have an equally excellent bhikkhusangha that they will lead properly, even as the bhikkhusangha is now being led properly by me." (MN I 339,22-29)6 Compared with the concept of ...
... being led properly by me. And those who in the distant future will be arahants and fully enlightened ones, these Lords will have an equally excellent bhikkhusangha that they will lead properly, even as the bhikkhusangha is now being led properly by me." (MN I 339,22-29)6 Compared with the concept of ...
Relics associated with Buddha
After his death, Buddha was cremated and the ashes divided among his disciples. Originally his ashes were to go only to the Sakya clan to which Buddha belonged; however, seven royal families demanded the body relics. To avoid fighting, a monk divided the relics into ten portions, eight from the body relics, one from the ashes of Buddha's cremation pyre and one from the bucket used to divide the relics. After The Buddha's Parinibbāna, his relics were enshrined and worshipped in stupas by the royals of eight countries.1. To Ajatasattu, king of Magadha2. To the Licchavis of Vesali3. To the Sakyas of Kapilavastu4. To the Bulis of Allakappa5. To the Koliyas of Ramagrama6. To the brahmin of Vethadipa7. To the Mallas of Pava8. To the Mallas of KusinaraWhen the Chinese pilgrims Fa-hien and Hiuen Tsang visited India centuries later, they reported most of these sites were in ruin. In some versions of the legend of King Ashoka, when he began his journey to collect the relics he still believed them to be held in the original eight stupas.The Lokapannatti (11th/12th century) tells the story of King Ajatashatru of Magadha who gathered the Buddha's relics and hid them in an underground stupa. The Buddha's relics were protected by spirit-powered mechanical robots (bhuta vahana yanta) from the kingdom of Roma visaya until they were disarmed by King Ashoka. The Ashokavadana narrates how Ashoka redistributed Buddha's relics across 84,000 stupas, with the distribution of the relics and construction of the stupas performed by Yakshas.The Mahaparinirvana sutra says that of the Buddha's four eye teeth (canines), one was worshipped in Indra's Heaven, the second in the city of Ghandara, the third in Kalinga, and the fourth in Ramagrama by the king of the Nagas. Annually in Sri Lanka and China, tooth relics would be paraded through the streets. In the past relics have had the legal right to own property; and the destruction of stupas containing relics was a capital crime viewed as murder of a living person. A southeast Asian tradition says that after his parinirvana the gods distributed the Buddha's 800,000 body and 900,000 head hairs throughout the universe. In Theravada according to the 5th century Buddhaghosa possessing relics was one of the criteria in Theravada for what constituted a proper monastery. The adventures of many relics are said to have been foretold by Buddha, as they spread the dharma and gave legitimacy to rulers.It is said all the Buddhas relics will one day gather at the Bodhi tree where he attained enlightenment and will than form his body sitting cross legged and performing the twin miracle. It is said the disappearance of the relics at this point will signal the coming of Maitreya Buddha. In the Nandimitravadana translated by Xuanzang it is said that the Buddha's relics will be brought to parinirvana by sixteen great arhats and enshrined in a great stupa. That stupa will than be worshipped until it sinks into the earth down to the golden wheel underlying the universe. The relics are not destroyed by fire in this version but placed in a final reliquary deep within the earth, perhaps to appear again.Previous incarnations of the Buddha also left relics; in the Buddhavamsa it mentions that the, Sobhita, Paduma, Sumedha, Atthadassi, Phussa, Vessabhu, and Kanagamana buddhas have had their relics dispersed.